sri-bhagavan uvaca
varam vrinidhvam bhadram vo yuyam me nripa-nandanah
sauhardenaprithag-dharmas tushto 'ham sauhridena vah

Translation: The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear sons of the King, I am very much pleased by the friendly relationships among you. All of you are engaged in one occupation -- devotional service. I am so pleased with your mutual friendship that I wish you all good fortune. Now you may ask a benediction of Me.

Purport: Since the sons of King Pracinabarhishat were

Kalakantha Prabhu: We were asked to speak on the subject of leadership and unity. So I have chosen this verse which I know is familiar to many of you. First let's chant responsively.

gurur na sa syat sva-jano na sa syat
pita na sa syaj janani na sa syat
daivam na tat syan na patis ca sa syan
na mocayed yah samupeta-mrityum

One who cannot deliver his dependents from the path of repeated birth and death should never become a spiritual master, a father, a husband, a mother or a worshipable demigod.

vettha tvam saumya tat sarvam tattvatas tad-anugrahat
bruyuh snigdhasya Sisyasya guravo guhyam apy uta
Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.8

Translation: And because you are submissive, your spiritual masters have endowed you with all the favors bestowed upon a gentle disciple. Therefore you can tell us all that you have scientifically learned from them.

Purport: The secret of success in spiritual life is in satisfying the spiritual master and thereby getting his sincere blessings. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti

TEXT 7

yas tv indriyani manasa
niyamyarabhate 'rjuna
karmendriyaih karma-yogam
asaktah sa visisyate

SYNONYMS

yah--one who; tu--but; indriyani--senses; manasa--by the mind; niyamya--regulating; arabhate--begins; arjuna--O Arjuna; karma-indriyaih--by the active sense organs; karma-yogam--devotion; asaktah--without attachment; sah--he; visisyate--by far the better.

TRANSLATION

On the other hand, he who controls the senses by the mind and engages his active organs in works of devotion, without attachme

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One of Prabhupada's sannyasi disciples, Hanuman, had fallen down from the sannyasa standard and had married. Such a thing had never before happened in ISKCON. But now, on Prabhupada's first day in Mexico, Hanuman, dressed as a householder, came to see his spiritual master.

After the crowd of guests had left Prabhupada's room, only Hanuman and a few senior men remained. "Srila Prabhupada," Hanuman began, "Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu had one disciple in the renounced order, Chota Haridasa, whom He r

So we should keep ourself... Krsna is also very kind. If you chant seriously, without offense, even the mental condition at the time of death is disordered, Krsna will help you how to chant without any offense. So we must... The only qualification is that we must be very sincere. Even by symbolic chanting, by joking, if one can get the benefit, why not do it carefully? Why not do it carefully? What is the wrong there? Be serious and chant Hare Krsna very carefully in order to get success of life

Imagine someone gives us two buckets – one empty and the other filled with water. Now we are asked to pour water from the filled bucket to the empty bucket and once the bucket gets filled up then again we have to pour water back into the first bucket. If suppose we are told to do this for entire day then how would we feel? And if for an entire year or for decades? We would definitely become insane. Shock therapy and psychological counseling would be required to make us forget the boring and sens

TEXT 6

karmendriyani samyamya
ya aste manasa smaran
indriyarthan vimudhatma
mithyacarah sa ucyate

SYNONYMS

karma-indriyani--the five working sense organs; samyamya--controlling; yah--anyone who; aste--remains; manasa--by mind; smaran--thinking; indriya-arthan--sense objects; vimudha--foolish; atma--soul; mithya-acarah--pretender; sah--he; ucyate--is called.

TRANSLATION

One who restrains the senses and organs of action, but whose mind dwells on sense objects, certainly deludes himself and is called

Vrinda Devi  

Today 3rd march 2013 all the devotees gathered beside Pavana Sarovar and after a nice hot breakfast of kichadi and banana, we began the preparations for the famous Kalash Yatra. All the ladies picked a nice clay pot and put some water inside from Pavana Sarovar, then a small clay cover over the mouth of the pot, bright yellow cloth with silver trim, and finally a coconut.

The Brijabasi ladies trained up our foreign ladies. As soon as started up the kirtan by HG Deena Bandhu Prabh

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Krishna (r) with Balarama

It is a completely mistaken idea that one can worship Krishna in any form or in any way and still attain the ultimate result of receiving the favor of the Lord. This is a decision made by gross materialists. Generally such men say that you can manufacture your own way of worshiping the Supreme Lord and that any type of worship is sufficient

TEXT 5

na hi kascit ksanam api
jatu tisthaty akarma-krt
karyate hy avasah karma
sarvah prakrti-jair gunaih

SYNONYMS

na--nor; hi--certainly; kascit--anyone; ksanam--even a moment; api--also; jatu--even; tisthati--stands; akarma-krt--without doing something; karyate--forced to work; hi--certainly; avasah--helplessly; karma--work; sarvah--everything; prakrti-jaih--out of the modes of material nature; gunaih--by the qualities.

TRANSLATION

All men are forced to act helplessly according to the impulses b

Krsna consciousness movement is therefore giving them knowledge. The first knowledge is that we are trying to convince everyone, following the footprints of Lord Krsna, as He wanted to convince in the very beginning, that dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara [Bg. 2.13]. This is the first knowledge. One should know that he is not this body. He is spirit soul, different from this body. He is living within this body. This is called knowledge. And at the same time, he should be supplied th

- By Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 June 2012, Cape Town, South Africa

I saw a mathematician, Stephan Unwin, who wrote a book. He was a professional consultant for insurance companies and a big name in that world. His business was risk calculation. In his whole life, he did nothing else but mathematical chance calculations. So he wrote a book where he did a chance calculation about the existence of God or not, and he came to a 69% for the existence. It’s a high percentage so there is something.

A l

- By Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 September 2012, Pretoria, South Africa, Caitanya Caritamrta 12.120

There are so many yoga philosophies around that also came from India and part of that philosophy is impersonalism - to think that the living being can become God. This is widely spread. I was in New York and I met God. He was sitting on a park bench. He was old, one tooth was missing, but he revealed it to me. He told me, "I am God."

So I said, "Oh! This is wonderful. After all these years I never t

Krishna’s Intelligence

This occurred in town of Dapoli in Maharashtra. Our group,consisting of sixteen devotees were engaged in Harinaam sankirtan and book distribution in an evening, .

I went to one person who was a car mechanic. He was at that time wearing his work attire and was repairing a car. I asked him to look at the Bhagavad Gita and the guy showed his dirty hands and said he can’t touch Bhagavad Gita.

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